No End

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No End

1985,

1h 48m,

Drama

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500+ Ratings

Amid the social unrest of 1980s Poland, attorney Antek Zyro (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz) dies in a car accident. His translator wife, Ursula (Grazyna Szapolowska), tries to continue her own work, raise the couple's son and refrain from dwelling on the loss of her husband, but she finds that grief is inescapable. Antek's ghost then begins to haunt her, and she decides that she can best serve her husband's memory by becoming involved in the last case he was working on, involving a political prisoner.

Noel Murray

AV Club

Aug 30, 2006

[Deserves] to be counted among his acknowledged classics

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Aug 30, 2004

2/5

I suspect that the story of how No End came to be made, and of how it speaks to Polish audiences, would be of as much interest to American audiences as the film itself.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Jan 1, 2000

This 1984 feature by the remarkable Krzysztof Kieslowski has been described as his most explicitly political.

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Mar 14, 2010

The aching of a moral crisis permeates every pore, from courtroom to bedroom

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jun 15, 2005

4/5

Dan Jardine

Cinemania

Nov 14, 2004

86/100

Kieslowski's most overtly political film, also one of his most potent; it boasts a finale that will surely set viewer's tongues wagging, whether in agreement or disconcertion

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Hermione W

Jan 3, 2018

Co-written and directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski who became synonymous for the "Three Colors" trilogy. An earlier film with husband speaking directly toward viewers that he had just died. His wife Ula Zyro (Grazyna Szapolowska) is in the grieving process and can't seem to get over it as she attempts to continue her routine until she stumbles onto her husband's last case before he had died since he was a defense lawyer for Polish's political judicial system which serves nothing more than a backdrop.

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Synopsis

Amid the social unrest of 1980s Poland, attorney Antek Zyro (Jerzy Radziwiłowicz) dies in a car accident. His translator wife, Ursula (Grazyna Szapolowska), tries to continue her own work, raise the couple's son and refrain from dwelling on the loss of her husband, but she finds that grief is inescapable. Antek's ghost then begins to haunt her, and she decides that she can best serve her husband's memory by becoming involved in the last case he was working on, involving a political prisoner.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Screenwriter: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Distributor: New Yorker Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Polish
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 1, 1985, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Aug 16, 2005
Runtime: 1h 48m

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